Hurco KM3-P Spindle type? CAT 40?

[WeTDrEaM]

We just bought a KM3-P and were wondering what the type of tools it takes. The end of the spindle says "quick change" and looks to be smaller than a cat 40?

[bloke]

They are a 30 taper spindle. I think you had Kwik-switch over there and we had Erickson over here.

[Jackal66]

You are lucky!!! The Kwik-Switch 30 or 300 are around $20-$30+ on E-bay.

The Kwik-Switch 200 on mine are $65 to $150+ on E-bay.

JAckal

[skullworks]

aka U200



and they most commonly employ the Acrua Flex or Acura Mill Collets such as the 3/8" series collet chuck shown below.



I have nearly more invested in the tooling than the machine its self. This is why I am looking for a 2nd machine with the same spindle.

I also have CAT40 tooling that I use for jobs I outsource.

[Jackal66]

Skull,

There is a Wells Index CNC mill at a local warehouse. It doesn't work and I'm trying to get the owner to sell it to me. iT has servos, but also the Kwik Switch 200 spindle.

He tried to sell it once and no one knew about the kwik switch holders and said it was junk.

So maybe after my Hurco retro........................................

JAckal

[skullworks]

I wonder which control is on it. Most the Wells Index units I've run into were fitted with the OLD Bandit controls. Those were fun to work with depending on which revision.

A Bandit control to me means a near 100% control refit. The ballscrews should be good, but I would be replacing the motors on out.

Somewhere I have a few coffee cans of Bandit Punched tapes that I wrote back in the day. The newcomers have no idea the dues we old timers paid - Pre-CAD/CAM where you used a slide rule and trig tables and wrote everything out in pencil to do a job.

I still hand code much of my production G-code because I can always make leaner/faster running code than the "Full Auto" CAD/CAM systems. I do use a basic CAD/CAM to get much of the basic geometry in place, but lots of tweaking and manual intervention gets the code to its best potential.

I have drifted off topic. - Best of Luck getting that machine. I've been trying to talk my uncle out of his dead KM3 which I used back in its glory days. After years of trying I found a great deal on the KM3P I have now which had the MAX32 upgrade and had all the software options that could be had for the MAX32 installed. Since it is all working I will keep it OEM and refit another machine.